Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon these hotels workmen were plastering furiously last week, tacking shingles like a swarm of mad woodpeckers. Some two score homes stood finished, furnished and occupied; but civil servants mostly slept at hotels after their 429-mile trip from Melbourne. Like barnyard fowls unused to migrating, which have suddenly been shooed from one coop into another, the employes of the Commonwealth of Australia were cackling many a minor protest last week; but the approach of a royal personage stilled all complaints...
...live stock with rabies. At Bear Valley, Ore., Raymond Vancil's horse, a grass-eater, suddenly tried to bite his master's leg, then dashed through three wire fences, before the man could rope, throw and kill it. Near Izee, Ore., Elmer Angell's cow, gone mad, chased him off his hay wagon and into his house...
...seven mad days before, Chicagoans saw mud slung in steam-shovel fashion, the so-called "better element" cheered 10,000 women marching for "Dever and decency." "Big Bill" Thompson, idol of half Chicago, its mayor from 1915-23, made his chief issue the King of England, swung his huge hams of fists, slung mud. Of his onetime intimate, Dr. Robertson, Mr. Thompson said: "The doc is slinging mud. I'm not descending to personalities, but let me tell you if you want to see a nasty sight you; watch Doc Robertson eating in a restaurant. Eggs in his whiskers...
...East Lake Country Club, they whacked their troubled way, eyes wandering from purse to Jones and back to purse again. For his first round the modest amateur took a conservative 72; the professionals were relieved momentarily. Then word spread over the feverish battleground that Jones had again gone mad, achieved a shocking 66; professional Adam's apples twitched nervously, professional eyes bulged, professional shots began to find horrible, score-mounting hazards...
...symbol of a dirty book. His chasing of pornographers did not always end with a clean capture. Over a fairly long period Anthony boasted that he had driven 15 persons to their death, a good number by suicide, others by an act of God. A lady in Philadelphia, mildly mad, wrote a pamphlet called The Wedding Night. Brought to justice by Comstock, she chose to exercise what she called Socrates' prerogative. Dr. Karl Reiland, eminent clergyman, wrote to the Roundsman: "You have hunted an honest, not a bad woman to her death. I would not like to have...